Empathy
Vampire.
Ghastly beauty in your silken skin, your tomb-stone
pallor
Ringlets of death about your ashen face
Eyes burning with
unearthly fire
Your lust for life.
Rise from your grave to follow
the call
Blood-lines engraved in your heart
Yield to a moment of
desperate hate
To fulfil your love.
I have seen you many nights
Wandering alone in the moonlit
streets
Following some scent
Of which I am unaware.
How often
have I longed to join you?
How many times have I prayed to you to see
me?
Your face is etched in my mind â
My eyes behold you wherever I
look
I see your pain
The force that traps you
And I long to release
you
Knowing that beauty and death are so close
Slender threads woven
into the fabric of my dreams
Will you ever see me?
My vampire
love
Will you ever come to me?
Let me share your life, your pain,
your love...
We will survive somehow.
By day I sit on your grave-stone
Hoping that you'll hear the words I
whisper
In your silent, weeping sleep.
My tears are the blood to
resurrect you.
As by night I yearn for your perfection
And you rise
again to walk alone
I wonder: will you ever need me?
Ever hear
me?
Ever want me?
White-faced and solemn you creep through the streets
Preying on the
miserable and alone
Feeding your own pain with the pain of
others
Your victims cause you to suffer
More than you do
them.
Rather take me â for I can cure you
Rather take me â for I can
love you
Rather take me â for I can let you live again
And this
eternity may be ours together
If you only come tonight...
Hold my hand and we are invincible
Life and death unite us in the
marriage of ages
We are indivisible, indestructible.
Perhaps tonight
you will understand.
You may stray beneath my window again
You may
perchance look up and see me this time
And perhaps you will realise how
I feel
My life is worthless without you
And the mortal world is a tiny
place
Compared to your immortal universe
While I sit and dream
Of
sublime pleasures to come
And thoughts of you haunt my mind
I will
pray that one day soon
You will understand my love
You will
understand my words
And all my thoughts will become yours
Once, for
all, for ever
My vampire love...
[16th May
1993]
